Ben Owens

Ben Owens is an Emergency Medicine Consultant at Sherwood Forest Hospitals since 2008. He trained in Sheffield, Sydney Australia, and Nottingham. He has been involved in medical leadership for over 10 years at the trust as Head of service for Emergency Medicine, Major Trauma Lead, Patient Flow lead, Divisional lead for Medicine and Clinical Chair for the Urgent and Emergency Care Division. During this time the trust has won HSJ awards for Patient Flow Project and Acute Trust of the Year. During this time the trust has been consistently in the top 10% for the 4h target and ambulance turnaround times and has one of the top rated front door streaming services by NHSE/I. The UEC division has been rated as outstanding for leadership by the CQC and its Acute Medicine and SDEC services have just been rated as exemplar by GIRFT. He is a Clinical Associate of the Emergency Care Improvement Support Team and has a special interest in risk and emergency care systems and processes with a patient centred approach and has spoken on various national and international forums on this. He has co-created the Inpatient and Admission Decision Support Tools recommended by NHSE and ECIST. and has published in journals and in the HSJ and regularity contributed to local regional and national improvement projects.